Mobile phone apps that send premium-rate texts, or make premium-rate calls, could be subject to fresh guidelines that have been drafted and published for public consideration.
PhonePayPlus, formerly ICSTIS, regulates services that are paid for using calls or messages sent to high-cost numbers, something which applications can do …

Begs the question?

Can you tell me

Why I have to send a £1.50 text with "stop" in to stop a premium rate service keep spam texting me and i did not ask for? like several times a week at the moment I can claim £3600 for my accident, you know, the one that gave me amnesia 'cos i dont remember having it?

Ofcom's bastard child

If ever there was a "brand" image for fecklessly wasting public money, it has to be PhonePayPlus. You wouldn't think it took a great deal of brains to work out the good, bad or simply crooked of premium rate provider's behaviour, but this collective of twatdangles make it look more arduous than tracking down the Higgs boson while still managing to turn out press releases that provide something more akin to self promotion than useful information.

This'll turn out to be another of those premium rate fiascos in which the punters get to haemorrhage cash (which won't get refunded) for a couple of long, consultation packed years before anything even slightly useful is done to stop app makers taking the piss, by stealth or not.